Jonathan Hunter wrote in a message to Hal Roney:
 JH> :-))) I've now got as far as getting my "development" box up
 JH> and running with Arcnet and Ethernet cards in it, but I'm
 JH> now stuck on the physical cabling side for Arcnet.. Do I use
 JH> T-pieces and terminators, as in Ethernet?? 
You can wire ARCnet that way, yes.
 JH> So far, the green light on the card (LINK?) is on
 JH> permanently, but the red light (DATA??) just flashes every
 JH> second or so :-( BTW - there are no other machines on this
 JH> LAN yet..
This is normal.  ARCnet is a token bus system, so there has to be a master 
who emits the tokens.  When ARCnet comes up, the lowest address card becomes 
the master.  What your lone card does is try to find some existing master 
and, if none is found, begin issuing tokens on its own as master.
 JH> I hope it will be... An interesting experiment, anyway, and
 JH> possibly useful if I ever want a network link to next door
 JH> or something (probably too far for Ethernet).
Routing between ARCnet and Ethernet LANs is fully supported by Linux, as long 
as you use a protocol such as IP which allows it.
 JH> Linux can use something called "ncpfs" - NCP file system. That 
 JH> enables it to mount Netware volumes and servers directly into 
 JH> the filesystem tree. It's one of the reasons I'm staying with 
 JH> Linux, rather than moving to FreeBSD or similar! 
The ncpfs utilities only make sense in an existing NetWare environment.  
There is also mars_nwe which allows Linux to emulate a NetWare server.
If you are not dealing with existing NetWare, Samba makes more sense.
 
-- Mike
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